desalination plant

English

Noun

desalination plant (plural desalination plants)

1. an industrial installation which converts seawater into drinking water by removing the salt.
   • 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 110:

     It has a solar-powered desalination plant on some of its flatter, more stable land, and that provides its people with a dependable supply of water.

Translations

plant which converts seawater

• Danish: afsaltningsanlæg n
• French: usine de désalinisation f
• German: Entsalzungsanlage (de) f, Meerwasserentsalzungsanlage (de) f
• Norman: dêsalinn'nie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avsaltingsanlegg n

• Polish: odsalarnia f
• Spanish: planta desalinizadora f, desalinizadora (es) f, planta desaladora f, desaladora f
• Swedish: avsaltningsverk (sv) n
• Ukrainian: завод для опріснення води m (zavod dlja oprisnennja vody)

See also

• desalinator

Anagrams

• stannopalladinite